A range of traditional cuisines coexist in the Mediterranean that, in their diversity, have common traits and philosophy, the result of the region’s trading and historical cohesion.
Le séjour de George Orwell à Marrakech, en 1938, a été un échec en raison de son incapacité à communiquer avec les Arabes, qu’il appréciait pourtant. Bien qu’il ait été un homme de gauche et qu’il ait passé sa vie à combattre les to...
During the Spanish-French occupation of Morocco, which began to establish itself in the late 19th century, the Spanish and French authorities showed great interest in the figure of the sharifs and holy men, who formed the traditional cultural and rel...
The complex relations between Spain and Islam is an exception in the usual imperial relations, and is characterised by an ambivalence that, in the case of Tétouan, has very rich nuances that illustrate diverse discourses about Spain’s domestic Ori...
The woman is absent from the stories and research about the East in modern times. Even so, within the panorama of European writers and travellers who told of their experiences in the East, three women stand out, all of them white and from the aristoc...
C’est en 1768 qu’al-Wartilani a achevé la rédaction de son ouvrage Nuzhat al-Andhar fi Fadhl `Ilm at-Tarikh wal Akhbar, plus connu sous le nom de Rihla. Il renferme une masse de renseignements essentiels sur l’Afrique du Nord du xviiie siècl...
During the Middle Ages there was great mobility in the Mediterranean, though often restricted to the two extremes of the social scale.
Between the 11th and 13th centuries the Levante region of Xarq al-Andalus was a very important focus of Hispano-Muslim culture, as shown by the documentary sources of the period that have survived.
The so-called “Ulysses’ Dream” arises from this desire, which took possession of Mediterranean culture to guide the specific life of the men of that sea, so that they would undertake a permanent reading of the classics as an antidote to oblivio...
The first awarded short-story of the 2021 A Sea of Words Youth Literary Contest by the Syrian Hala Kabalan.
The semi-permanent exhibition space in the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (Mucem) in Marseille, finally opened its major new exhibition on 19 May 2021.
“Travel and Mediterranean Memory” is the result of the interest of the contributors to this issue in reflecting their own thoughts and those of figures, some better known than others, who have left a mark on Mediterranean memory.
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